Study The Relationship between Vitamin D deficiency and Thyroid disorders in sample of Iraqi patients

Abstract

The deficiency of vitamin D is a common health problems all over the world, its role in many diseases is being studied recently. However, its role in thyroid diseases is not well settled yet . In this study, 120 Iraqi samples with age ranged between (30 and 55) years engaging in this research, divided in two groups, The first group which diagnosed as having vitamin D deficiency consists of( 31 male and 29 female), and the other group contained normal people which play as control group consists of (28 male and 32 female). As we found from our results that the vitamin D was significantly positive correlated with T3 in both groups, TSH was only significantly negative correlated with vitamin D in the patients’ group, we found that the results of T3, T4 and TSH were significantly correlated in the patients’ group only and they were not correlated in the control group. With regard to age we found not contributing to the means vitamin D in both groups.